Florence Trips

What we did: • Waited around terminals • Flew. All darned night. What I learned: • If you forget your PSP, your Nintendo DS, or your netbook, at home, you can buy one from one of JFK’s enormous vending machines There were a bunch of these, standi …

We took two flights to get to Rome. The flights went quickly and were pleasant. We flew Alitalia from Boston to Italy. There were A LOT of bad reviews on this airline, so we decided not to check any luggage. The food was ok--beef stew and manicotti …

Woohoo! One more sleep.... This time tomorrow morning we'll be boarding the plane bound for Florence (via Calgary then Frankfurt). Arrived in Calgary at 3pm CA time or 4pm local time. Nice clean airport, well organized and easy to navigate …

So excited about returning to Europe! I was able to again cash in on miles and hotel points to ensure that this is a first-class trip on a budget! The cruise itself was already an unbelievable deal for 8 nights in a balcony stateroom on the …

Day 1 Being late for almost half an hour, the night train from Munich arrived at Florence at about 7am. Without much delay, we (two friends and myself) headed to Galleria degli Uffizi, the largest museum in Italy, and more importantly, tourists …

Florence is a city that always takes me by surprise, no matter how many times i've visited. There are few places in the world that transport you to a time long sense past the way this part of Tuscany does. I arrived early this morning from …

After our first taste of international flights, we're glad to finally land in our first destination: Rome. Getting off the plane we expected a long line of people being checked in by customs. We walked up to a booth, he looked at our passports …

So, I left Boston last night and arrived in Dublin very early this morning. I had a 10-hour layover before my connecting flight to Frankfurt, so I took a coach into the city and did some sightseeing. I checked out St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin …

Well, this journal highlights the events of the first few weeks of my life as a 25 year old. As my quarter life crisis gift to myself, I decided that I would whisk myself away to Italy in October! After 6-8 months of planning, the trip of a …

Hi All, I plan on making entries into the journal from the travel journals that we wrote on our trip. This hopefully will keep the entries fresh and spontaneous (although technically late entries hehehe). I am pairing photos with the journal …